A recently weaned harp seal pup swims in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Female harp seals give birth on ice. For two weeks, pups build up fat reserves, enabling them to be weaned from their mothers, to withstand frigid waters, and to survive on their own.
2024-04-12 词
I was in the Magdalen Islands, an archipelago in the gulf, in March 2011. Together with my partner, David Doubilet, I had set out to photograph harp seals as part of a comprehensive story on the marine ecosystem of the Gulf of St. Lawrence—an alcove of the North Atlantic Ocean—where the waters teem with life. Historically in winter, the gulf’s pack ice transforms into the southernmost whelping grounds for harp seals—an ice nursery for newborn pups.
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